From the Tweetdeck of @ccoletta in Indy
Tweeting from the Livability Challenge in Indianapolis, CEOs for Cities president and CEO Carol Coletta had this to say:
• 100 Acres, the Indianapolis Art and Nature Park, is a stunning asset. It must be connected to the city’s trail system.
• Think of the city as a park. #cities
• “The U.S. is overstored by 30%.” Carnegie Mellon’s Don Carter at Indy CEOs for Cities Livability Challenge #cities
• Why not rain gardens all along the edges of 38th St. corridor? Get fed $$ to pay for stormwater benefits. #cities
• “When you have Turkish food trucks replacing Tavern on the Green, you know the world has changed.” Adrian Benepe at CEOs for Cities.
• Adrian Benepe is sharing an “out of the big box” idea that converts decayed strip malls to food production centers. #cities
• Many cities are grappling w/what to do with ‘30s, 40s, 50s public spaces that are massive but that are not used.
• “In Indianapolis, you have some of the best neo-classical public space in the country. “- NYC Parks Guru Adrian Benepe #cities
• Ideas competitions are a good way to start a conversation about a project and its potential.
• Can Monument Circle (or any great public space needing fresh attention) become the place where all livability principles are demonstrated?
• Can we think about an arts system similar to green systems?
• Lily Yeh: Transform brokenness through art (and she has done it).
• Lily Yeh: In places where you don’t know what to do, you can experiment and explore with art.
• Adrian Benepe: What’s here now that we can work w/? How do we build coalition of existing interests? (This is why he gets so much done)
• NYC Parks Department runs the nation’s largest welfare to work program. 6,000 “graduates” a yr. That’s astonishing. #cities
• TPL Will Rogers: We should aspire to green space within a 10-minute walk of any citizen in any city.
• Adrian Benepe: Need to have aspirations around open space. Doesn’t have to be expensive. School playgrnds, comm gardens, pop ups
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